Motif
Landscape altered to mark a raid route
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A motif of the Sacred Combat and Ritual Warfare family, within the sub-family Host Battle and Siege. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge THIS IS THE ROUTE OF THE TAIN / THE MARCH OF THE HOST / THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS OF CUCHULAIN / THE SLAYING OF ORLAM; lines 4778-4914 confidence: high
After failing to find Donn Cualnge, the host follows the river Cronn to its mountain source because they cannot cross; Medb forbids the path between river and mountain, so the mountain is dug out before her.
The host digs and hollows out the mountain so that its trace remains and so the place becomes a named gap associated with the foray.
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